Chapter 17 Vocab Flashcards
Pastoralists
A sheep or cattle farmer
Karakorum
The capital of the mongol empire in the 13 century
Kumiss
Fermented mares milk
Shamans
A person who was thought to have access to the influence of good and evil
Saljuq (Seljuk) Turks
A Sunni Muslim Turkish confederation that ruled much of Central Asia and Anatolia between 1071 and 1194.
Khan
Ruler
Battle of Manzikert
fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuq Turks
Mahmud of Ghanzi
The very first ruler in history to assume the title of “Sultan” was Mahmud of Ghazni, founder of the Ghaznavid Empire.
Sultanate of Dehli
a series of Indo-Muslim dynasties that ruled South Asia from 1206 to 1526
Temujin/Chinggis (Genghis) Khan
The uniter of nomadic tribes and one of the first warlords of the Mongol empire
Khubilai Khan
Genghis Khans grandson and conquer of southern China
Marco Polo
A jewel merchant from Venice who was an embassy for Khubilai Kahn
Yuan Dynasty
The dynasty in China established by Khubilai Kahn
Kamikaze
A Japanese gale that destroyed Mongol ships in the 13 century
The Golden Horde
Turkicized Mongols who ruled over Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and the Caucasus from the 1240s until 1502 established by Batu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan.
Ilkhanate
A breakaway state of the mongol empire
Lamaist Buddhism
The form of Buddhism favored by the Mongols
Bubonic Plague
A plague that came from rats and killed much of Europe and quite a bit of Asia as well
Timur-I-lang/Tamerlane
The mongol ruler of Samarkand
Osman
The leader of the ottoman Turks
Ottoman Empire
The empire founded by Osman in 1299
Mehmed 2
A sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Istanbul
The Turkish name for Istanbul
